Pictures. They show heavy smoke and flames. Thurston says a recycling plant has been in the process of tearing down the former Textile Building for the last six months. Vdot says drivers can expect delays around earl street. All north and south through lanes are closed on route 501. We have a crew headed there right now. Information as it comes into our newsroom. Is underway. She is charged with three counts of child abuse and neglect. Whites son. Noah thomas. Was found dead in a septic tank back in march. Wsls 10s Bethany Teague explains what happened in court today. Day one of ashley whites bench trial went to about 530 this evening. The prosecution indicated that it has just a few more witnesses to call tomorrow. We learned today that the prosecution is alleging two of ashley whites child abuse and neglect crimes occurred when she left noah thomas and his six month old baby sister home the childrens father, paul thomas, to work. The third offense occurred when she fell asleep after
Nats fire chief a 911 call was received around 330 this afternoon that there was a fire at the old dan river plant, Randall Johnson is the fire marshall for campbell county. He says there are about 7590 firefighters on scene battling the flames. Johnson says this fire is unusual because of how massive it is, its engulfing the 355 thousand square foot facility. The biggest challenge to fight the fire getting resources like water to put it out. Randall johnson campbe ll county fire chief because we are limited to hydrants there are none in the factory in a proper it itself and also in the beginning we had several small spot fires that started in the grass surrounding the plant that we had to deal with, johnson says right now he feels there arent any toxic chemicals in the former site. The property was a textile plant. But was shutdown. For the past six months a recycling plant has been in the process of tearing it apart. Piece by piece. Cross after today i dont think they are going to ha
Places but with the wind. It feel even colder. For that reason. We want to head over to storm team ten chief meteorologist. Jeff haniewich. Jeff. Is there any relief in sight . The flurries and snow showers have finally ended. For a brief time. Thursday was pretty chilly but at least we another clipper will impact the region on friday, bringing more snow showers, especially into the mountains. Tonight clouds thicken, cold with less wind. Lows in the midtoupper teens. Friday mostly cloudy with mountain snow showers. Highs in the middle 30s. While most of the snow showers will occur in the mountains on friday, we will see flurries, maybe even a few snow showers farther east. We are looking at a coating1 maybe above 2500 ft. , up to 2 in the nrv and highlands, with a possible dusting in spots farther east. This will start southwest virginia families face. Law enforcement and Mental Health professionals work to combat the issue in adults. Now. A new river Valley Public School is working to